TikTok Permanently Banned the 'Musk' Film's Ad Account
By TechPulse USA The platforms that will show you absolutely anything about Elon Musk have decided, one by one, that they cannot show you the film about Elon Musk. TikTok is the latest: on Friday afternoon it permanently suspended the advertising account for "Musk," Alex Gibney's 235-minute documentary about the world's richest man, citing political-content violations it declined to specify. Meta and YouTube rejected the trailer first, then reversed themselves. X — the platform Musk owns — won't carry the ads at all. Shortly before the TikTok account was removed, it posted a farewell of sorts, urging people to see the film "before it gets shut down." Then it got shut down. You couldn't script a better trailer for a documentary about unchecked power than the platforms' collective refusal to advertise it. The suspension was first reported by The Hollywood Reporter on Saturday. What makes it more than a marketing mishap is the ownership chart: T...